Black Tidewater Refugee Women and Family in the Age of the American Revolution
Adam McNeil is a 5th-year Ph.D. Candidate in Early African American Women's History at Rutgers University. McNeil is currently completing his dissertation, "Black Tidewater Refugee Women and Family in the Age of the American Revolution" in residence at the McNeil Center for Early American Studies as a Consortium Dissertation Fellow. His research has been supported by fellowships from the University of Michigan's William L. Clements Library, the David Center for the American Revolution at the American Philosophical Society, the Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture, and the Colonial Willliamsburg's John D. Rockefeller Library. In addition to academic writing, McNeil regularly interviews authors and journalists on the New Books in African American Studies podcast, where he has interviewed over one hundred authors and journalists about their books and podcasts since 2017. For the academic year 2023-2024, McNeil will serve as the dissertation fellow podcast host of Early American Conversations, a podcast hosted through a partnership between the McNeil Center for Early American Studies and the University of Pennsylvania Press.
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